Paul Roberts Exclusive FemaleFirst Interview

25-07-2007 15:59

Paul Roberts perhaps is best know for fronted The Stranglers from 1990 to 2006. Since leaving the band Paul has gone to form Soulsec and tour all over the country.He is now set to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Richard 'Rocky Horror Show O'Brien's new play Mephistopheles Smith. In between rehersals Paul talked to me about his twenty five year career and what is yet to come.

How did your part in the play Mephistopheles Smith come about?

It was my PR man who brought it to my attention it seemed like quite a fitting thing to do actually.

It's with Richard O'Brien isn't it?

It's his production he wrote this thing, it was based on three songs that he peformed at a venue where he was doing something to do with Rocky Horror, I believe. I have experience, in the past, in the world of acting and musical theatre and I just though yeah this is a really good idea actually. And ever since I got the part people have been saying things like 'talk of the devil' and stuff like that.

So you have done musical theatre work prior to this?